If we all had the courage of photographer Bennet Pimpinella, there would be many more beautiful things to look at and it would be much easier to discover the world.
It is not for everyone, moreover, to walk in the street and stop strangers, without doubt, abstruse fears, or emotional block.
But, in Bennet’s portraits, there is a lot of emotion.
There are smiles, indifference, dismay, amazement, fears, souls and eyes.
There are many eyes in his pictures, all those of strangers that Bennet stops and tells through some sincere shots, simple but big enough to be able to move.

“Sorry, can I take a picture of you?
That is my leitmotiv.
Walking down the street I am kidnapped by people. And at that time I have to stop them.
Suddenly, we are just two of us. The world around us is disappearing.
The weather stops and, in a moment that seems very long, something unique happens: that newly met person, the unknown, gives you a part of himself, in an unexpected act of intimacy.
I love people.
I don’t want to know anything about them.
I love to distort their everyday lives for a moment.
Photography is a performance. And the shot is the result.
Everything happens in three minutes: one minute to convince them, one minute to shoot and one minute to hug them and say goodbye.”